Samuel Hopkins
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Samuel Hopkins was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky statesman after whom the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Hopkins canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7286007 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Hopkins Context triple: [Hopkinsville, Kentucky, namedAfter, Samuel Hopkins]
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A.
Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins was an 18th-century American Congregationalist theologian known for developing a rigorous Calvinist system later called Hopkinsianism, which became a central strand of New England theology.
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B.
Dr. Samuel Hopkins
Dr. Samuel Hopkins is a fictional Calvinist minister and theologian in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister's Wooing," loosely based on the historical New England preacher of the same name.
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C.
Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
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D.
Josiah Winslow
Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
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E.
Solomon Stoddard
Solomon Stoddard was a prominent 17th- and early 18th-century New England Puritan minister and theologian, best known for his long pastorate in Northampton, Massachusetts and his influence on colonial religious life.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Hopkins Target entity description: Samuel Hopkins was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky statesman after whom the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is named.
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A.
Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins was an 18th-century American Congregationalist theologian known for developing a rigorous Calvinist system later called Hopkinsianism, which became a central strand of New England theology.
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B.
Dr. Samuel Hopkins
Dr. Samuel Hopkins is a fictional Calvinist minister and theologian in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister's Wooing," loosely based on the historical New England preacher of the same name.
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C.
Isaac Royall Jr.
Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
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D.
Josiah Winslow
Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
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E.
Solomon Stoddard
Solomon Stoddard was a prominent 17th- and early 18th-century New England Puritan minister and theologian, best known for his long pastorate in Northampton, Massachusetts and his influence on colonial religious life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
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American politician ⓘ Kentucky statesman ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Hopkins ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| hasPlaceNamedAfter |
Hopkins County, Kentucky
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Hopkinsville, Kentucky ⓘ |
| honoredIn |
toponymy of Hopkins County, Kentucky
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toponymy of Hopkinsville, Kentucky ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role as an early Kentucky statesman
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service as an officer in the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| notableWork | contribution to early political development of Kentucky ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Representative
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linked to:
U.S. Representative
member of the Kentucky legislature ⓘ member of the Virginia House of Delegates ⓘ |
| represented | Kentucky ⓘ |
| residence |
Kentucky
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Pennsylvania ⓘ Virginia ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Samuel Hopkins Description of subject: Samuel Hopkins was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky statesman after whom the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is named.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.